The state is generating an almost constant stream of alarming news. “Essential” services from libraries to police hours to public school teaching staffs are being drastically cut. Cities are going bankrupt. This year’s state budget—which currently boasts a $19 billion shortfall—has been delayed for nearly two months, with no agreement in sight between Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Democratic lawmakers. Employees are being furloughed. The state will soon have to start issuing IOUs to cover its obligations. Sacramento announced Monday it would be unable to pay nearly $3 billion in school and county subsidies. Books with titles like Plunder and California Crackup detail how massive financial obligations have rendered the state essentially ungovernable.

In short, California can’t buy decent press these days. (And even if it could it wouldn’t have any money to do so.)

The niece of Dr. Martin Luther King explains why she’s speaking at the Glenn Back rally in Washington, D.C.

“I am attending this rally to help reclaim America. I’m joining Glenn to talk about faith, hope, charity, honor. Those are things that America needs to reclaim. Our children need to remember to love each other how to honor each other, their parents, God and their neighbors. I agree with Glenn on all of those principles. So that’s why I’m here. For me it’s principles over politics.”

King, who served as a Democrat in the Georgia House of Representatives from 1979 to 1981, was a keynote speaker at today’s non-partisan rally, which also featured speeches from Beck and Sarah Palin.

Throughout her career King has courted controversy as an advocate for the pro-life movement. After having two abortions herself, King began speaking publicly, often at college campuses, about abortion issues. In 1996 she publicly condemned her aunt Coretta Scott King’s support of abortion rights.

“…among married mothers with children in the home under 18, only 18 percent of married mothers would prefer to work full-time; by contrast, 46 percent would prefer to work part-time, and 36 percent would prefer to stay at home. Clearly, the most popular option for married mothers is part-time work, whereas only about one-fifth of these mothers would prefer to work full time.”

“A belief or doctrine that inherent differences among the various human races determine cultural or individual achievement, usually involving the idea that one’s own race is superior and has the right to rule others.”

It’s only common sense that different cultures achieve different results. How many of you would want to live in Northern Australia with aborigines? Anybody contemplating emigrating to Zambia? It is not racism, it’s simply a recognition that certain cultures are clearly superior to others. But political correctness calls it racism.

As to the right to rule over others…well, how many of us wish to rule over aborigines or Zambians?

Out here in the woods it is refreshing to see how the young people treat older people. Out here an older person is always spoken to with respect. I hear a lot of “Yes, sir” and “Yes, ma’am” when I am out and about doing my errands.

It’s sure different from the big city. In Houston, Dallas, or Austin you’re looked upon as a minor nuisance. Young people hold the door open for you out here and wish you Good Morning, Sir as you make your way into a store.

And older people aren’t referred to as being old. A person is “getting up there in years.”

A lot of younger people out here in the woods have older relatives living with them. They don’t pack them off to rest homes.